The Indigenous Summer Intensive, coordinated by the Creative Studies Department, in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, is being held on campus from July 4th until August 15th. The program features a core group of senior artists: Rebecca Belmore, Lori Blondeau, David Garneau, and Adrian Stimson, and includes upward of 20 visiting studio artists in residence. These artists will be developing new work addressing issues related to the ongoing complex responses to reconciliation, and art-making practices as a radical methodology for decolonization and Indigenizing contemporary theoretical discourse and art praxis.
Alongside the intensive residency, FCCS is offering numerous courses in visual art, creative writing, and performance. All of these courses will run in conjunction with the Indigenous Summer Intensive with varying degrees of crossover between them.
During the Summer Indigenous Intensive, a series of exciting discussions with writers, artists, curators and performers taking part in the O k’inādās Complicated Reconciliations Art Residency, will be held each Wednesday, starting July 6th and continuing to August 10.
WHAT: O k’inādās Round Table Discussions
WHEN: 12 noon – 2 PM every Wednesday from July 6-August 10
WHERE: The University Theatre (ADM026), 3333 University Way, Kelowna
FREE: Open to all community and university members
Wed. July 6:
Rodrigo Hernandez-Gomez, David Garneau, Rebecca Belmore, Jordan Scott, Cecily Nicholson
Wed. July 13:
David Khang, Adrian Stimson, Lori Blondeau, Carmen Papalia, Michelle Jacques
Wed. July 20:
Kevin Ei-ichi deForest , Mark Igloliorte, Mimi Gellman, Haruko Okano, Osvaldo Yero, Raymond Boisjoly
Wed. July 27:
Olivia Whetung, Tania Williard, Tannis Nielson, Cathy Mattes, Charles Campbell, Elizabeth LaPensée
Wed. August 3:
Srimoyee Mitra, Michelle LaValle, Evan Lee, Jackson 2bears, Aaron Franks , Leah Decter,
Wed. August 10:
Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Millie Chen, Julie Okot Bitek, Warren Cariou, Annie Ross, Camille Turner
This project is supported by a Canada Council reconciliation grant, the McConnell Foundation, and the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus.